PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #5957; N. Walton, N. Blagorodnova, M. Fraser (IoA), M. Dennefeld (IAP), S. Taubenberger (MPA), S. Benetti, A. Pastorello (Padova), C. Inserra, S. Smartt, K. Smith, D. Young (QUB), M. Sullivan (Southampton), S. Valenti (LCOGT), O. Yaron, A. Gal-Yam, (Weizmann), C. Knapic, R. Smareglia, M. Molinaro (Trieste), I. Manulis (Weizmann), D. Wright, R. Kotak, (QUB), S. Valenti (LCOGT), W. Burgett, K. Chambers, M. Huber, R. P. Kudritzki, E. Magnier, J. Morgan, C. Stubbs, W. Sweeney, J. Tonry, C. Waters (IfA, Univ. Hawaii), P. Draper, N. Metcalfe (Univ. of Durham), A. Rest (STScI)
on 8 Mar 2014; 17:56 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Supernovae
Credential Certification: Morgan Fraser (mf@ast.cam.ac.uk)

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PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Valenti et al., ATel #4037; http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following supernova classifications. Targets were supplied by Pan-STARRS (see Valenti et al., ATel #2668) and DECam (Forster et al., ATel #5949). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2014 Mar 7, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution). Classifications were done with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024) and GELATO (Harutyunyan et al., 2008, A&A, 488, 383). Classification spectra can be obtained from http://www.pessto.org (via WISeREP).

 
Name       | RA (J2000)  | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Disc. Source | Disc Mag | z     | Type  | Phase  | Notes 
 
GRETA      | 11:11:15.95 | +00:52:59.6 | 20140304   | DECam        | 21.2     | 0.085 | IIn?  | -      | (1) 
EMILIA     | 11:34:31.96 | +01:08:32.4 | 20140304   | DECam        | 21.0     | 0.135 | ?     | -      | (2) 
PS1-14ra   | 14:41:28.44 | +09:25:58.7 | 20140305   | PS1          | 16.6     | 0.03  | Ia    | ~max   |  

(1) Narrow emission lines of Halpha, Hbeta, [O II], [O III] and [S II] on a blue continuum. The transient is in a spiral arm, clearly separated from the centre of the well-resolved host galaxy.
(2) EMILIA has a blue continuum, with narrow Halpha and [O II] 3727 Ang emission.